FAMOUS FASHION PHOTOGRAPHERS
“Being famous does not necessarily mean being the greatest and being the greatest does not necessarily mean being famous!”
With that in mind here are some of the greatest famous photographers that changed my life and how I shoot forever! I studied their masterful techniques for decades and I find their fascinating images  my source of inspirations in discovering my true love and passion in photography
FAMOUS FASHION PHOTOGRAPHERS: United States, Europe, Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris and more…
1- Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004) Los Angeles based photographer
To be born in a Jewish Family in Berlin Germany before the WWII came with a big price for young Helmut and his family. After his father was forced out of their family business by the Natzi’s and forced in to a  concentration camp, they had no choice but to flee the country to south America and eventually to Asia. Where Helmut ended up settling in Singapore and  began his photography career as a fashion and portrait photographer alongside his lovely wife June which at the time was a beautiful actress and a successful photographer as well. June soon became Helmut’s biggest fan, supporter and inspiration throughout his fascinating and inspirational life and career. She was one of the biggest forces that helped him to become the conic fashion photographer that shaped the world of fashion photography as we know today! And despite his love for the black and white photography, Helmut Newton lived an incredibly adventurous and colorful life!
Helmut Newton – Iconic Fashion photographer
2- Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) New York based famous fashion photographer
Avedon’s fame and success started in the early 50’s as a young photographer for known publications and fashion designers such as Harper’s Bazaar , Life Magazine, Vogue,  Gianni Versace, Calvin Klein, Revlon, Colgate as well as countless magazines covers for Vogue as a staff photographer and especially after Anna Wintour joined the team in 1973 , these dynamic duo created some of the most iconic fashion and editorial layouts for decades. Brooke Shields describes Richard as quiet, sensitive and very creative with a unique vision…Richard Avedon will always be remembered as one of the best and most published fashion photographers ever lived.
Nastassja Kinski by Richard Avedon – one of the most famous fashion photographers of the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and the 90’s
3- Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 – October 7, 2009) New York photographer
American Fashion beauty photographer Irving Penn was born on June 16 1917 in Plainfield,  New Jersey to a Russian Jew family! His simplistic approach in his photography soon became a trend that is still followed by many great photographers. Photographing his subjects against a simple gray background became his signature style that landed him on the cover of many magazines such as Vogue and subsequently many commercial brands, including Clinique,  General Foods, De Beers, Issey Miyake, etc…
IRVING PENN FAMOUS FASHION AND BEAUTY PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER FOR VOGUE
His simplicity was the key to his fame and success and this proves my point all along, that expensive gears and elaborate backdrops do not make a photographer famous, but his vision and talent does!
FAMOUS LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHERS:
4- Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984 San Francisco photographer in love with Yosemite National Park
Known as one of the greatest landscape photographers in the world. His splendid and glorious black and white images of the nature, especially the Yosemite’s national park made him a household name. Ansel’s love for photography started when his father introduced him to astronomy as a kid. His eye for details and high resolution images all started from that point on. Ansel’s passion and fascination with nature photography also started when his father gave him his first camera, a Kodak Brownie box  at the age of 12 during his first visit to Yosemite’s national park, which sparked his love affair with  nature and landscape photography. His use of large format camera later in his career and eye for depth and details in his images soon became his signature and eventually had earned him the title of grand master landscape photographer we all love and admire for decades!
I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THESE MASTERS WORK AND A BIT OF THEIR LIFE HISTORY AND IF YOU EVER WISHEDÂ TOÂ LEARN THESE PHOTOGRAPHERS SECRET Â AND HOW THEY CREATE SOME OF THE MOST ICONIC IMAGES OF THE LAST CENTURY?
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